In windows I could see the one line names of multiple folders without icons on different columns on the screen. In ubuntu we have only two choices, a one line version that takes the whole line, or as ...

I am new to Ubuntu and I need a little help...
Recently, due to a power supply interruption, my Iomega NAS broke.
I've read that I was able to rescue the files that were on it by installing Ubuntu on ...

I am trying to install ubuntu from the hard drive.When the home screen appears after restarting the computer a message says that "No root file system is defined"(as superuser).I partitioned my hardisk ...

I would like to write a shell script that allows me to open a text file with a particular name and write the name of the file at the beginning of every line. So, if my file is called "test" and it has ...

alright so got through the entire process of installing Ubuntu I thought.
I even got on it and was working on it all day yesterday.
today I restarted my computer to make sure I could still get on. and ...

How do I stop it for creating such folders...
eg..if I open the application say - Stellarium, then
in the home - a folder ".Stellarium" gets created
This was not being created before...What can do to ...

I've just added a predictive search (see example below) feature to my site that runs on a Ubuntu Server. This runs direct from a database. I want to cache the result for each search and use that if it ...

Is there a way to increase the icon size in the file-chooser dialogue? As you can see from the screen shot below, under the green dot, my icons are very tiny and I would like to increase their size a ...

This question claims that recently-used.xbel of GTK+ is incompatible with KDE. Can it be made compatible? That is, is there a tool/way out there which will make recently-used.xbel readable/usable with ...

So I have this question and need solutions. At my Office I have windows 8.1 PC and I have great Internet Speed. So I have downloaded lots of HD movie and Games They Size Like 17 GB or 34 GB.
Now At ...

As documented here, Dropbox appends (Case Conflict) to a file moved in ubuntu to a dropbox folder already containing a file of the same name (ignoring case).
I would like to set up alternative ways ...

I am trying to switch over to Linux (after taking the EdX course) and move my workflow gradually from Win to Linux. One of the things I haven't been able to accomplish yet is to move and view (with ...

I have two excel sheets both having lakhs (hundreds of thousands) of records.
I want to compare if the records present in file1 is also present in file2 or not.
Also I want to check what all are the ...

I just installed Ubuntu a couple days ago, as I was browsing through Ubuntu's files I found an interesting document containing seemingly all the words in the English dictionary. I know I did not put ...

Are there transfer speed differences when a copy-paste action is done with different file managers?
Transfer speed seem to vary within a single operation, but can a file manager or other application ...

I have an Ubuntu Server and one of its "tasks" is to mirror/backup files located on another server in a different location using rsync/rdiff-backup.
I know there are some conventions like web pages ...

I am using ubuntu 14.10 server 32bit terminal (no GUI). I am using this as a SOHO file server with only 1-3 users. I have set everything up properly and everything seems to work just fine. I am using ...